Cancer Entangled
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Cancer Entangled

Anticipation, Acceleration, and the Danish State

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eBook - ePub

Cancer Entangled

Anticipation, Acceleration, and the Danish State

About this book

Cancer Entangled explores the shifts that took place in Denmark around the millennium, when health promoters set out to minimize delays in cancer diagnoses in hope of improving cancer survival. The authors suggest a temporal reframing of cancer control that emphasizes the importance of focusing on how people – potential patients as well as health care professionals – experience and anticipate cancer before a diagnosis or a prediction has been made. This argument compellingly challenges and augments anthropological work on cancer control that has privileged attention to the productive role of science and technology and to life with cancer or cancer risk. By offering rich ethnographic insights into the introduction of the first cancer vaccine, cancer signs and symptoms, public discourses on delays, social class and care seeking, cancer suspicion in the clinic, as well as the work on fast-track referral – the book convincingly situates cancer control in an ethical registrar involving attention to acceleration and time, showing how cancer waiting times become an index of the "state of the nation".

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction: Crafting Cancer Anticipations
  6. 1. The Waiting Time Paradox: Intensifying Public Discourses on the Vital Character of Cancer Waiting Times
  7. 2. Accelerated Diagnostics in Slow Motion: Ordinary Dramas of Life and Death in the Middle Class
  8. 3. “What If It Is Just Hiding?”: Care Seeking and Symptom Expansion
  9. 4. Cancer, Inequality, and Expectations of Sameness
  10. 5. The Ghost of Cancer in the Clinic
  11. 6. Making Cancer Patient Pathways Work
  12. 7. “Keeping an Eye on It”: Infrastructures of Lung Cancer Uncertainty and Certainty
  13. 8. Silent Cancer Vaccine Encounters: Young Women’s Experiences with Suspected HPV Vaccine Adverse Reactions
  14. Afterword: Urgency, Modernity, and Pace in Cancer Care
  15. Acknowledgments
  16. Notes on Contributors
  17. Index